Haneesh Kesari - 2017 Assistant Professor of Engineering

==== Scholarship and Research ====

=== Articles ===

“Effects of geometric nonlinearity in an adhered micro-beam for measuring the work of adhesion”, Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical, and Engineering Sciences, Peer Reviewed, In Press “Depth-dependent hysteresis in adhesive elastic contacts at large surface roughness”, Scientific Reports, Peer Reviewed, Under Review “A new structure-property connection in the skeletal elements of the marine sponge Tethya aurantia that guards against buckling instability”, Scientific Reports, vol. 7, pp 39547, 05/17/2017, Peer Reviewed, Published “A Millimeter Scale Flexural Testing System for Measuring the Mechanical Properties of Marine Sponge Spicules”, Journal of Visualized Experiments, vol. 2, no. 128, 10/11/2017, Peer Reviewed, Published “Molecular statics study of depth-dependent hysteresis in nano-scale adhesive elastic contacts”, Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering, vol. 25, no. 5, pp 055002, 05/10/2017, Peer Reviewed, Published “Enhanced bending failure strain in biological glass fibers due to internal lamellar architecture”, Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, vol. 76, pp 69-75, 12/01/2017, Peer Reviewed, Published “Heterogeneity vs Hierarchy : toughness enhancements in mineralized structural biomaterials”, Nature Communications, Peer Reviewed, Under Review

=== Submitted Proposals ===

Proposal Number: 18030310 Title: A New Phase Field Based Fracture Mechanics Theory for Understanding the Origin of Toughness Enhancement in Bio-inspired Materials with Intricate 3D Interfaces Sponsor: National Science Foundation Start Date: 09-01-2018 End Date: 08-31-2021 Direct Cost: $292333 Indirect Cost: $144810 Proposal Type: New PI % Effort: 8.3

=== New Awards ===

Sponsor ID: N00014-17-1-2644 Grant ID: GR5250036 Title: Development of a Predictive Multiscale Traumatic Brain Injury Model - SoE Kesari Research Sponsor Name: Office of Naval Research Award Status: Active Start Date: 07-01-2017 End Date: 06-30-2020 Anticipated Directs: $53538 Anticipated Indirects: $24769 Obligated Directs: $53538 Obligated Indirect: $24769

=== Continuing Awards ===

Sponsor ID: CMMI-1562656 Grant ID: GR5260109 Title: Emergence of New Properties at the Large-Scale on Elastic Surfaces due to Small-Scale Adhesion and Waviness Sponsor Name: National Science Foundation Award Status: Active Start Date: 03-01-2016 End Date: 02-28-2019 Anticipated Directs: $248603 Anticipated Indirects: $126397 Obligated Directs: $248603 Obligated Indirect: $126397

Sponsor ID: N/A Grant ID: GR5290253 Title: Bio-inspired Interfacial Engineering for the Development of Novel Structural Materials Sponsor Name: Haythornthwaite Foundation Award Status: Closed Start Date: 01-01-2016 End Date: 12-31-2016 Anticipated Directs: $20000 Anticipated Indirects: ? Obligated Directs: $20000 Obligated Indirect: ?

= Corrections, additions, or comments on proposals and awards. =

New Award:

 

Development of Materials with Designed Meso-scale Architectures for Dynamic Loading

Status: Awarded

Directs: $41,595

Start: July 1, 2018

End: June 30, 2019

PI: Pradeep Guduru

Co-PI  : Haneesh Kesari

 

White paper: Development of Materials with Designed Meso-scale Architectures for Dynamic Loading

Status: Subnitted to Office of Naval Research

PI: Pradeep Guduru

Co-PI  : Haneesh Kesari

 

White paper: Regularized Variational Fracture Theory for Modeling Crack Branching in Heterogenous Materials  

Status: submitted to Air Force Office of Sponsored Research, Computational Mathematics

PI  : Haneesh Kesari

 

 

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USA

= External fellowships, honors and awards: (Artists may wish to include prestigious residencies here.) =

None

= Brown University honors and awards =

None

= Invited Talks, including title, venue, and date (if declined please indicate. SPH faculty should skip this section.) =

"Theoretical and Computational Mechanics of Impact, Nonlinear Deformation, Fracture, and Energy Absorption":, 

Team Wendy, Cleveland, Ohio, Oct 13, 2017

Organized: Office of Naval Research

 

New Mechanics Insights from Marine Glass Fibers

School of Engineering Brown University, Oct 5, 2017

 

Structural Biological Materials as Templates for Engineering Composite 

Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Brown University, Oct 11, 2017

 

 

 

 

 

==== Teaching and Advising ====

=== Course Offerings ===

Special Projects, Reading, Research and Design, ENGN 2980 (S46), Spring 2017, Enrollment: 2 Special Projects, Reading, Research and Design, ENGN 2980 (S46), Fall 2017, Enrollment: 2 Advanced Engineering Optimization, ENGN 1950 (S01), Fall 2017, Enrollment: 7

= Corrections or additional comments on teaching information =

In Spring 2017 I co-taught Fracture Mechanics (ENGN 2380) along with Pradeeo Guduru.

Enrollment: 6

=== Undergraduate Advising ===

First-Year Advisees: 16

Sophomore Advisees: 4

Concentration Advisees: 9

=== Masters Student Advising ===

Jianzhe Yang, School of Engineering, ScM, Primary Advisor

=== PhD Student Advising ===

Weilin Deng, 3, Primary Advisor

Wenqiang Fang, 1, Primary Advisor

Joyce Mok, 1, Primary Advisor

Max Monn, 3, Primary Advisor

Kaushik Vijaykumar, 3, Primary Advisor

=== Undergraduate Theses Advised

Christopher Owen-Elia

=== Undergraduate Researchers Supervised ===

Elliot Weiss

==== Service ====

=== School/Department Committees ===

Ph.D thesis committee member of the Brown engineering Ph.D. student Vineeth Venugopal

Solid Mechanics/Material Science Seminar Series Organizer

=== Journals ===

Journal of Applied Mechanics, Reviewer, reviewed one manuscript in 2017 Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, Reviewer, reviewed one manuscript in 2017 Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, Reviewer, reviewed one manuscript in 2017 Tribology Letters, Reviewer, reviewed one manuscript in 2017 Proceedings of the Royal Society A, Reviewer, reviewed one manuscript in 2017 Journal of Physics D, Reviewer, reviewed one manuscript in 2017

= Additional comments on service to the University =

I was the organizer for the Solid Mechanics/Material Science Seminar Series for the entirity of the calendar year 2017. I organized eight seminars per semester.